Asked if he believed in reincarnation: "I am opposed to it."
Another time (holding a flower): "One carnation is enough."
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Ideal relationship is based on giving.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maharishi's nine rules of life:
Don't analyze
Don't complain
Don't compare yourself to others
Don't expect things to be done for you
Don't expect perfection in the relative
Look to the knowledge aspect daily
Own the movement
Problems are all in your head
Hold yourself together
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
(the authenticity of this quote has been questioned)
The formula for producing maximum results is to disregard the obstacles and
negative influences which offer resistance to the performance of action. The
doer should engage in action and continue until the desired results are achieved.
When the standard of consciousness is raised through the process of meditation,
the action performed at that higher level of life energy and intelligence will
have an overriding influence on karma from the past and will produce maximum
results. This is how, by the regular practice of Transcendental Meditation
supplemented by the power of charity and virtuous deeds, the negative influence
of past karma can be counteracted and the path of present karma smoothed.
Then the action will be performed without resistance or obstacle, yielding
maximum results. This is how, by the power of present action or karma, destiny is
controlled. Herein lies the full meaning of the saying that man is a master of his
own destiny.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
We don't do what we know is wrong.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
There is nothing in life to take seriously except the joy of life.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Silence vibrating is Creation. Silence flowing is Love. Silence shared is
Friendship. Silence seen is Infinity. Silence heard is Adoration. Silence
expressed is Beauty. Silence maintained is Strength. Silence omitted is
Suffering. Silence allowed is Rest. Silence recorded is Scripture. Silence
preserved is Our Tradition. Silence given is Initiating. Silence received is Joy.
Silence perceived is Knowledge. Silence stabilized is Fulfillment. Silence alone
is.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Sleep in the bliss of God.
Feel the love of God, Lie in the showers of his blessings.
Let your heart melt in the love of God.
Sleep in the love of God and in Love.
Sleep in the warmth of Divine Grace,
Without my words -- only in this feeling"
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
There is nothing that can be said so certainly about stress except that the
amount of rest produced will neutralise the corresponding intensity of stress.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The secret of success is conviction and persistence.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The secret of success in business is creativity. The urgent need in business
today is to develop the field of creativity that lies deep within each individual.
Through Transcendental Meditation the awareness of the individual comes into
contact with this field of unlimited creativity, pure consciousness, the
Constitution of the Universe.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A good teacher will appreciate the good qualities of his students. If one good
quality is allowed to emerge, a world of good qualities will emerge from that one.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The factor of time is very vital in life. Those who have accomplished great things
in the world have been those who valued time in their life. The time of life is
limited and a great amount of evolution has to be accomplished for fulfilment of
life. Therefore, the factor of time must be valued above everything.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
This is the whole aim of the Vedas: that no man engaged in the field of diversity-
-field of diversity means field of death, field of change--no man engaged in the
field of change should ever be allowed to remain there all the time. He should be
given the opportunity, his body and mind should be cultured so that imperishable
state of eternal Being permeates all these changing phenomena in the relative
world.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are
responsible if wars continue.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that
comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a
leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where THEY wish, not where
WE wish. So we meditate, EVERY DAY, REGULARLY, and gain transcendental
being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with
Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is
automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter...
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
It is the responsibility of the older generation to advise the young, to tell the
child what is right and wrong. Even if they do not want to listen to follow our
direction, it is right to tell them.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
In Thy presence, my Lord, filled with Thy grace,
and for the purpose of union with Thee
I am starting Yoga Asanas.
Grant me good health, energy, and efficiency in life.
I feel Thy grace, Thy divine presence.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
